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GHENILLE.

No. 368,722. Patented Aug. 23, 1887.

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rrn ra'rns FREDERICK LANDENBERGER, OENEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HUGO MAUL & 00., OF SAME PLACE.

CHENILLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,722., dated August 23, 1887.

Application filed December 16, 1886.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK LANDEN- BERGER, of the city and county of New York, in the State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Chenille, of which the following is a specification.

In chenille as heretofore made the fibers which are held between the twisted longitudinal strands lie closely together, and give the chenille,whetherit be a plain straightchenille or afigured chenille having swells or enlarged portions at intervals in its length, a substantially uniform and close surface, and the fibers in any plane transverse to the length of the chenille are of substantially uniform length.

The object of my invention is to improve the appearance of chenille and to obtain a beautiful effect which is novel in such chenille.

The invention consists in a chenille having scattered throughout its body fibers which are longer than the body fibers and which project beyond the general surface of the chenille. By the use of the long projecting and scattered fibers, whether they be made of a contrasting material or contrasting color, or both, relatively to the body fibers, I obtain beautiful ef fects which have not before been produced in chenille.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown as clearly as is possible by the use of black ink different varieties of my improved chenille.

Figure 1 represents a plain straight piece of chenille embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a round ornament pointed at both Fig. 3 represents a piece of figured chenille having swells or enlarged portions at intervals in its length, and Fig. 4 represents a chenille imitation feather embodying my invention.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

In all the figures, c designates the outline of the body portion of the chenille shown by full lines, and (Z designates the longer fibers,which Serial No. 9.21.780. (Specimens) project beyond the general outline or surface of the chenille. The chenille may be made by the machine shown and described in my application, Serial No. 237,308, filed May 6,

1887, and the body fibers in any tranverse fore project considerably beyond the surface' 0, formed by the body fibers. The fibers which make up the body of the chenille and terminate at theline c are close together, as is usual; but thereverse arrangement is given thelong fibers d, and they are more or less isolated from one another, and are scattered either regularly or irregularly throughout the fabric, and always project more or less beyond the body fibers adjacent to them. By using long fibers of materials or colors different from those which make the body of the chenille, novel and beautiful effects in almost endless variety may be produced without materially increasing the cost of the fabric.

I am aware that it is not new to make a pile fabric-such as plushwith long fibers projectingat intervals on one surface and from the general surface formed by the pile of the 'fillingfibers, and I do not claim such feature as of my invention.

What I claim as myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The chenille herein described, having scattered throughout its body fibers which are longer than the body fibers and which project in all directions beyond the general surface of the filling of the chenille, substantially as herein described. 7

FREDERICK LAN DENBERGER. \Vitnesses:

O. HALL,- HUGO MAUL. 

